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Storytelling with data. Writing for the Professions. Welcome to the course. We shall be using this page in order to organise WFP. Please check this page weekly before you come to class.. All classes will take place in the computer labs but students are invited to bring their own laptops if they so wish. If you are unable to make your tutorial for whatever reason, you are expected to complete the weekly tutorial tasks in your own time. The following are contact details for the unit coordinator Myra Gurney: Email m.gurney@uws.edu.au, | Mobile: 0409 306 852 | Office: BB 1.62 Class times are as follows: Lecture (initially weeks 1-4): Monday 11-12 BB G.39 Tutorial 1: 9.00-11.00 BB 1.46 (computer lab) – Presentation Schedule Tutorial 2: 1.00-3.00 BB 1.46 (computer lab) – Presentation Schedule Tutorial 3: 3.00-5.00 BB 1.46 (computer lab) – Presentation Schedule.

The Go Programming Language. Virtual Reality & Virtual Tours for Colleges, Hotels, Real Estate. Simple Visualizations with D3plus. I’ve been using D3, a JavaScript library for data visualizations (the three ‘D’s stand for Data-Driven Documents), for my own projects and with my students for some time.

It’s a particularly cool tool for working with dynamic data or information from a database and giving it life in a visual format through charts, graphs, and interactive data displays. Information visualization can be a powerful way to represent complex or otherwise inaccessible data. However, the learning curve for it is a little high, so I’ve never recommended it as an entry tool for this type of visualization. Last week I followed Miriam Posner’s mention on Twitter to something that may change that: D3plus. D3plus is described as an extension for D3, but it’s really a simplification of the library’s at times overwhelming options and data structures to make it easy to built visualizations of data sets. Have you tried D3 or D3plus? Return to Top. The Fallen of World War II.

No one could see the colour blue until modern times. This isn’t another story about that dress, or at least, not really. It’s about the way that humans see the world, and how until we have a way to describe something, even something so fundamental as a colour, we may not even notice that it’s there. Until relatively recently in human history, “blue” didn’t exist. As the delightful Radiolab episode “Colours” describes, ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue — not Greek, not Chinese, not Japanese, not Hebrew.

And without a word for the colour, there’s evidence that they may not have seen it at all. How we realised blue was missing In the Odyssey, Homer famously describes the “wine-dark sea.” In 1858, a scholar named William Gladstone, who later became the Prime Minister of Great Britain, noticed that this wasn’t the only strange colour description. So Gladstone decided to count the colour references in the book. He studied Icelandic sagas, the Koran, ancient Chinese stories, and an ancient Hebrew version of the Bible. There was no blue. The Semiotics of “Rose Gold” - The New Yorker. The announcement, last week, that, with its new generation of iPhones, Apple would be offering a model that was “rose gold” in color made the news that it was meant to: “The internet has lost its damn mind about the new pink iPhone,” read Buzzfeed’s headline.

The phone, with its rubicund sheen, was instantly coveted. “I don’t care at all about whatever they are talking about. gimmie the pink phone,” tweeted Roxane Gay, the feminist author. In other quarters, the color was met with a sense of mystification. Christina Warren, writing at Mashable, wondered whether Apple had opted for the appellation of “rose gold” as a way to avoid using the overtly girly “p” word.

“I’m just going to say it: it’s pink,” she wrote. When employed by jewelers, rather than by extremely savvy marketers of digital devices, the term “rose gold” refers to an alloy of gold to which copper has been added. Since then, the popularity of rose gold has waxed and waned. UFC Fighter Ronda Rousey Has Physics-Based Superpowers. On August 1, Ronda Rousey defeated Bethe Corriea in a UFC bantamweight match in a scathing, fleeting 34 seconds. But how awesome is Rousey, really? Was 34 Seconds Too Short?

If you watched the Rousey-Corriea fight on pay per view, then you might think 34 seconds was too short. I mean $49.99 isn’t exactly cheap, is it? That would be $1.32 per second. But if you paid for a ticket, you should have known what to expect, frankly. Rousey has an average fight time of just 69 seconds compared to 277 for Corriea and 212 for Andrade. How Many Strikes? If you look for it, you can find data on the number of strikes per match. It’s not perfectly linear, but I can still get a function that relates the number of strikes to the length of the fight. It’s not easy to punch and kick that many times. This is a speed of about 5 m/s.

Twenty-five joules! But what do I know about fighting? Go Back to Top. Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens. Thanks to technology, we’re reading more than ever—our brains process thousands of words via text messages, email, games, social media, and web stories. According to one report, the amount people that read tripled from 1980 to the late 2000s, and it’s probably safe to say that trend continues today.

But as we jam more and more words into our heads, how we read those words has changed in a fundamental way: we’ve moved from paper to screens. It’s left many wondering what we’ve lost (or gained) in the shift, and a handful of scientists are trying to figure out the answer. Of course, there’s no clear-cut answer to the paper vs. screen question—it’s tangled with variables, like what kind of medium we’re talking about (paper, e-book, laptop, iPhone), the type of text (Fifty Shades of Grey or War and Peace), who’s reading and their preference, whether they’re a digital native, and many other factors. But what about e-books?

Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens. Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens. Gallery · mbostock/d3 Wiki. Wiki ▸ Gallery Welcome to the D3 gallery! More examples are available for forking on Observable; see D3’s profile and the visualization collection. Please share your work on Observable, or tweet us a link! Visual Index Basic Charts Techniques, Interaction & Animation Maps Statistics Examples Collections The New York Times visualizations Jerome Cukier Jason Davies Jim Vallandingham Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Peter Cook Charts and Chart Components Bar Chart Histogram Pareto Chart Line and Area Chart Pie Chart Scatterplot and Bubble chart Parallel Coordinates, Parallel sets and Sankey Sunburst and Partition layout Force Layout Tree Misc Trees and Graphs Chord Layout (Circular Network) Maps Misc Charts Miscellaneous visualizations Charts using the reusable API Useful snippets Tools Interoperability Online Editors Products Store Apps.

What Killed The Infographic? A few years ago, the Internet was awash in groundbreaking data visualizations. There was Aaron Koblin's deeply influential map of flight patterns around the U.S. Periscopic's exhaustive, haunting portrait of gun violence in the United States. Jer Thorp and John Underkoffler's Minority Report-like interface for exploring the galaxy. Today, you'd be lucky to find a cheap knockoff in a world dominated by crappy promotional infographics churned out for viral attention. Nicholas Felton, the data viz guru who once designed Facebook's Timeline, now builds apps.

Infographics, it seems, are a dying breed. Data Viz Has Gone Corporate Years ago, the hardest part of a data visualization designer's job was explaining what he did and why it was worthwhile. The upshot is that some of the best data visualization work is going unseen, as Fortune 500 companies hire data visualization designers for NDA work or snatch them up for full-time work. Tableau is a bit like Excel. So Where Is This All Going? Eagereyes – Visualization and Visual Communication. Olia lialina cv. Bio: Born in Moscow. Net Artist, one of net.art pioneers, animated GIF model. Co-founder of Geocities Research Institute and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Archive.

Writes on New Media, Digital Folklore, Vernacular Web and Human Computer Interaction. Professor for new media and interface design at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. @GIFmodel olia at profolia.org hi res photos25.12.06 (Nordheim) by D.Espenschied15.06.14 (Berlin) by Natascha Goldenberg09.02.16 (Eindhoven) by Boudewijn Bollmann11.01.17 (New York) by Elliot Kaufman05.05.18 (Stuttgart) by Lea Roewer12.11.19 (Stuttgart) by Jule Brandhuber + GIF HTML portrait08.12.20 (Paris) by Raphael Bastide 3D02.06.16 (Berlin) by Alfredo Salazar-Caro On FacebookOn TumblrOn Vine In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011 author:Perpetual Calendar 2021 False Memories 2020 Hosted 2020 Self Portrait 2018 Best Effort Network 2015/2020 640x480 2014 Summer 2013 Online Newspapers.

Seven on Seven 2017: Olia Lialina & Mike Tyka from Rhizome on Vimeo. Iconic Logos Through The Years. Show Don't Tell - Creating Visually Useful Infographics For Your Audi… Easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online. Web.simmons.edu/~benoit/lis470/VisComm-F13.pdf.

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